Mapibara
A Map for Local Events (markets, concerts, hiking...)
Details
- External ID
- 46229810
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mapibara
- Website domain
- mapibara.com
- Launched
- Dec. 11, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- map for discovering local events and activities
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The map interface and filtering system are simple to build, but aggregating, deduplicating, and keeping fresh local event data across dozens of countries requires complex web scraping pipelines or commercial data feeds.
What it would actually take: The UI and backend can be built with Next.js, Mapbox/Leaflet, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. The difficult part is building automated ETL pipelines with headless browsers (Playwright/Puppeteer) or LLM parsers to constantly scrape, normalize, geocode, and deduplicate events from fragmented sources (Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook Events, local municipal sites) without getting blocked.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google, Bing, Local newspapers, Council websites
Concerns raised: High operational costs for search engine, Limited geographic coverage (only 5 countries currently)
Feature requests: UI improvements (better icons), Data source transparency
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 274 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #261 of 275 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 40 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Newsmap · hn · 2025-11-01 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- venue-studio · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- NYC MapTap · hn · 2026-09-08 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- interactive-travel-planner · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- A website for exploring historical photographs of my city · hn · 2026-08-12 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- map-paper · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a marketplace tool for Horizontal yet.